From a Wall Street Journal story by Max Colchester headlined “Ex-British Leader Boris Johnson Quits as Lawmaker Ahead of ‘Partygate’ Report”:

Boris Johnson, the former British prime minister and one of the country’s most recognized politicians, announced on Friday that he would step down as a lawmaker after a probe into whether he lied to Parliament about his attendance at a series of parties during Covid lockdowns.

Johnson’s decision came after a parliamentary committee concluded a lengthy review into whether he knowingly misled lawmakers after denying attending social events in Downing Street during the Covid-19 pandemic. The social events broke the government’s own rules to the public forbidding such gatherings.